Eyes from the streets of Salisbury UK
The annual Fine Food Fair, held in the Market Square, is nearly upon us once more. The date for your diary is Sunday 23rd September 2007, although there will be events elsewhere in the city throughout the weekend.
Abbey Stores are once again organising the beer, cider and wine tent and if you find your way to their homepage there is a free beer offer that you can take advantage of.
For more information about the Market Square event, and confirmed stall holders, please visit this page.
Salisbury’s Farmers’ Market takes place every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, from 9am-2pm in the Market Square. This isn’t the most convenient of times to have a farmers’ market if the whole household are usually at work. However, I managed to catch it yesterday. A few farmers’ market stalls do make an appearance at the bi-weekly Charter Market with one stall each of trout (smoked and fresh, brown and rainbow), vegetables, home-made pies, English wine, bread, cheese, and meat (usually bacon and sausages). The Wednesday farmers’ market is a completely different affair. There are a wide variety of meat stalls proffering free range rare breed British Saddlebacks from the Pigman, handsome organically reared chickens (and their bones for stock for just 50p!), and even English bison, locally grown fresh-out-the-ground vegetables that smell amazing - yes, it’s amazing, vegetables have a wonderful scent if they’re grown properly and haven’t travelled hundreds of miles, garlic from specialist Isle of Wight growers the Garlic Farm, and cheese! Continue reading ‘Salisbury Farmers’ Market’
